Ricoh digital colour print systems are being installed at an increasing number of high-profile print businesses, including IVE and Lamson Paragon, as the companies beef up their digital operations.

The world’s biggest foiling materials developer, Leonhard Kurz, has a new CEO, and for the first time in the company’s 124-year history it is not a member of the Kurz family.

Marketing guru Malcolm Auld says if research shows direct mail gets more attention than any other form of advertising, why aren't today's marketers giving it more attention than they do?

It was a blast from the past when more than 50 former staff members of Seligson & Clare Australia – and the wider Aldus Group – reunited for lunch at Melbourne’s Notting Hill Hotel.

Mail monopoly Australia Post lost $1m a day, every day, on its letters business in the first half of the year, and says it is experiencing significant ongoing headwinds. However, the bulk mail industry says AusPost is not listening to it, as mailhouses experience a bumper period.

Marvel Bookbinding & Printfinishing has promoted Richard Eastaugh to the role of general manager, the move putting him in charge of running the country’s biggest trade binding and finishing house.

Korean artist Lee Ji-hee has recreated an iconic full-sized Heidelberg letterpress platen, made entirely from paper and card, in a marvellous tribute to the iconic press.

Online print giant Vistaprint has a new CEO, with founder and current CEO Robert Keane turning his focus to the SME market, and former Amazon exec Florian Baumgartner taking the reins.

Digital imaging giant EFI has split off its Fiery business into a new separate independent company, and appointed Frank Pennisi as its new CEO. He was previously running Orora's packaging business.

In a tragic but inevitable move, Opal is now looking at closing down Australia’s only printing papers manufacturing operation, with the company unable to source new logs following an adverse court decision in favour of a rare possum. Some 300 workers at the region's biggest employer will be sacked, and 200,000 tonnes of paper imported as a result.

The long-running battle between TMA Australia to seek redress and compensation from the Philippines Charity Sweepstake Office over their collapsed JV has taken another turn, with TMA now setting up a war chest to continue the fight.

Prince Harry’s controversial memoir Spare has smashed the record for autobiographies in Australia, outselling the previous bestseller by more than three times, delivering a production bonanza to local printer Griffin Press.

The Australasian Promotional Products Association has launched its Trade Show Calendar for the year, which includes capital city roadshows, and the Australian and New Zealand promo shows.

From a farm in Zimbabwe to one of Australia’s most advanced printshops, complete with sheetfed B2 inkjet Fujifilm Jetpress, it’s been quite a journey for the Games family.

The federal government wants to ditch printing the Voice referendum information pamphlet, which would run to multiple pages and go to 9.3 million households, making it by far the biggest print job of the year, if it were to be printed.

Some 37 staff at Opal’s Maryvale Mill have been stood down, with a further 120 about to face the same fate, as production at Australia’s only printing papers manufacturing plant grinds to a halt.